Prosecution Insights
Last updated: October 25, 2026

Park, Kim & Suh, LLC

Technology areas: Chemistry & Materials • Transportation, E-Commerce & Mechanical Systems • Medical Devices & Mechanical Engineering

21 pending office actions • 16 clients • 21 examiners • 18 art units • 0 of 21 (0%) have an AI response strategy ready

Analysis

Park, Kim & Suh, LLC handles Chemistry & Materials matters across 3,261 career applications. The firm has 18 pending office actions, indicating active prosecution within a substantial application portfolio.

The resolved allowance rate is 85.66%, and allowed matters receive an average of 2.44 office actions. These measures separate prosecution outcome from the amount of examiner interaction associated with allowance. Practitioners can apply them when reviewing portfolio results, allocating response resources, and evaluating claim strategies.

Written from this page's own data; every figure is computed from USPTO records and verified before publication.

Quality Metrics (n=3261 apps, methodology: how we score firms)

85.7%
Allowance Rate
n=3261
+0.55σ
Allowance Rate (norm)
n=3261
2.4
OAs to Allowance
n=496
-0.57σ
OAs to Allow (norm)
n=496
836 days
Time to Allowance
n=496
+12.9pp
Interview Lift
n=3261
12.4%
RCE Rate
n=3261
0.0%
Appeal Rate
n=3261

Rejection Performance (% of received rejections ultimately overcome)

74.0%
§101 Overcome
n=119
77.4%
§102 Overcome
n=234
76.0%
§103 Overcome
n=388
74.7%
§112 Overcome
n=269

Specialization & Scale

G06F, H01L, G06Q
Top CPC Subclasses
15%
Top-3 CPC Share
n=3261
1
Practitioners
n=3261
3261.0
Apps / Practitioner
n=3261

Portfolio Summary

21
Total Pending OAs
11
Non-Final OAs
10
Final Rejections
0
Advisory / Quayle

Response Deadline Pressure

Based on the USPTO statutory response window for each pending office action. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date; the rest are excluded from the tile counts.

4
Overdue
0
Due this week
1
Due this month
0
Due in next 60 days
1
Due later

Deadline Fire Line

Every pending office action with a known statutory deadline, placed on a days-until-due axis. Dots left of Today are overdue; the further right, the more runway. Cases that share a deadline window stack vertically. 6 of the docket's apps have a known mailing date.

-30dToday30d60d90d120d
Overdue (4)Due ≤ 30 days (1)Due later (1)

Case Difficulty Mix

Difficulty is derived from the rejection statutes on the most recent pending office action. §101-driven and multi-statute cases are graded Hard; §112-only and obviousness-type double-patenting cases are graded Easy; everything else is Medium. "Unknown" means we have not yet parsed a statute for that office action.

14
Hard (67%)
5
Medium (24%)
2
Easy (10%)
0
Unknown (0%)

Rejection Statute Mix

BucketCases
§101 only1 (5%)
§101 + other4 (19%)
§103 only5 (24%)
§112 only2 (10%)
Multi-statute (no §101)9 (43%)

Industry Mix

How the docket's pending cases split across USPTO tech-center bands.

5
Life Sciences
24% of docket
4
Information Tech
19% of docket
0
Communications
0% of docket
2
Semiconductors
10% of docket
8
Mechanical / Eng
38% of docket
2
Business / Other
10% of docket

Time-on-OA Estimate

Manual office-action response work runs about 10 hours per case. The time-saved bands below show what IP Author's prosecution pipeline typically delivers — a conservative 20% on the low end, 35% in the middle, 50% on the high end.

210 h
Manual time on pending OAs
42 h
Time saved (low, 20%)
74 h
Time saved (mid, 35%)
1.8 wks
FTE-weeks freed (mid)

Top Examiners on this docket

ExaminerApps on this docketAllow rateInterview lift
BHANDARI, SHREYAJ RAM 1 100.0% +0.0%
CHEN, KEATH T 1 30.2% +24.7%
BURKMAN, JESSICA LYNN 1 82.1% +15.7%
MOTT, ADAM R 1 75.2% +22.0%
BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN 1 81.2% +15.2%
ELL, MATTHEW 1 66.6% +21.9%
DUNN, DREW A 1 15.3% +10.3%
MERCADO, GABRIEL S 1 42.5% +25.7%
MAMILLAPALLI, PAVAN 1 80.4% +17.0%
NEUPANE, ADARSH 1 100.0% +0.0%

Quick Wins (3)

Cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate of 80%+ where the difficulty is Easy or Medium. The top 3 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18716519 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADVERSARIAL FEATURE SELECTION CONSIDERING ATTACK FUNCTION OF VEHICLE CAN BHANDARI, SHREYAJ RAM 8d overdue
18617551 PLATES INSTALLED AT THE BOTTOM OF SALT LAKES TO EXTRACT LITHIUM BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN —
18533010 SUBSTRATE TRANSFER APPARATUS INCLUDING MULTILAYER EFEM NEUPANE, ADARSH —

Hard Cases (14)

Multi-statute / §101-driven matters, or cases in front of an examiner with an allow rate under 30%. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18577279 ELECTRONIC APPARATUS CAPABLE OF SIMULTANEOUSLY DISPLAYING, ON ONE SCREEN, PAGES CONSTITUTING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT BY TWO PAGES, EACH AND OPERATING METHOD THEREFOR MERCADO, GABRIEL S 131d overdue
18221390 TASK MANAGEMENT SERVICE SERVER CAPABLE OF PERFORMING TASK MANAGEMENT FOR AN ELECTRONIC TERMINAL AND THE OPERATING METHOD THEREOF BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 89d overdue
18222959 MULTIFUNCTIONAL EPIDURAL CATHETER BEING EQUIPPED WITH SENSOR FOR DETECTING PRESSURE APPLIED TO COMBINED BALLOON SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS 45d overdue
18815854 SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS CHEN, KEATH T —
18660164 SUBSTRATE TRANSFER APPARATUS BURKMAN, JESSICA LYNN —
18660167 SUBSTRATE TRANSFER APPARATUS MOTT, ADAM R —
18595389 FEDERATED LEARNING METHOD AND DEVICE USING DEVICE CLUSTERING ELL, MATTHEW —
18294132 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESSLY CHARGING TIRE SENSOR DUNN, DREW A —

Interview Candidates (8)

Cases in front of an examiner whose interview lift is 10 percentage points or more — i.e. interviewed cases historically resolve more favorably than non-interviewed ones. The top 8 ordered by deadline are shown.

App #TitleExaminerDue in
18577279 ELECTRONIC APPARATUS CAPABLE OF SIMULTANEOUSLY DISPLAYING, ON ONE SCREEN, PAGES CONSTITUTING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT BY TWO PAGES, EACH AND OPERATING METHOD THEREFOR MERCADO, GABRIEL S 131d overdue
18815854 SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS CHEN, KEATH T —
18660164 SUBSTRATE TRANSFER APPARATUS BURKMAN, JESSICA LYNN —
18660167 SUBSTRATE TRANSFER APPARATUS MOTT, ADAM R —
18617551 PLATES INSTALLED AT THE BOTTOM OF SALT LAKES TO EXTRACT LITHIUM BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN —
18595389 FEDERATED LEARNING METHOD AND DEVICE USING DEVICE CLUSTERING ELL, MATTHEW —
18294132 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESSLY CHARGING TIRE SENSOR DUNN, DREW A —
18399450 TRAINING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MOLECULAR GENERATION MODEL MAMILLAPALLI, PAVAN —

Client Portfolio (16 clients)

Top Art Units

Art UnitApps
17162
24341
36531
36521
17721
21411
21711
21591
36551
28181

Pending Office Actions

App #TitleClientExaminerArt UnitStatutesStatusDue inAIFiled
18716519 APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ADVERSARIAL FEATURE SELECTION CONSIDERING ATTACK FUNCTION OF VEHICLE CAN Foundation Of Soongsil University-Industry Cooperation BHANDARI, SHREYAJ RAM 2434 §103 Final Rejection 8d overdue Pending Nov 05, 2024
18815854 SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS Tes Co., Ltd. CHEN, KEATH T 1716 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Aug 27, 2024
18660164 SUBSTRATE TRANSFER APPARATUS Vm Inc. BURKMAN, JESSICA LYNN 3653 §102§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 09, 2024
18660167 SUBSTRATE TRANSFER APPARATUS Vm Inc. MOTT, ADAM R 3652 §102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending May 09, 2024
18617551 PLATES INSTALLED AT THE BOTTOM OF SALT LAKES TO EXTRACT LITHIUM N2E Materials Co., Ltd. BAUM, ZACHARY JOHN 1772 §112 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 26, 2024
18595389 FEDERATED LEARNING METHOD AND DEVICE USING DEVICE CLUSTERING Ajou University Industry-Academic Cooperation Foundation ELL, MATTHEW 2141 §101§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Mar 04, 2024
18294132 SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR WIRELESSLY CHARGING TIRE SENSOR Banf Co., Ltd. DUNN, DREW A §103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jan 31, 2024
18577279 ELECTRONIC APPARATUS CAPABLE OF SIMULTANEOUSLY DISPLAYING, ON ONE SCREEN, PAGES CONSTITUTING ELECTRONIC DOCUMENT BY TWO PAGES, EACH AND OPERATING METHOD THEREFOR Flexcil Inc. MERCADO, GABRIEL S 2171 §103§112 Non-Final OA 131d overdue Pending Jan 08, 2024
18399450 TRAINING METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MOLECULAR GENERATION MODEL UIF (University Industry Foundation), Yonsei University MAMILLAPALLI, PAVAN 2159 §101§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Dec 28, 2023
18533010 SUBSTRATE TRANSFER APPARATUS INCLUDING MULTILAYER EFEM Vm Inc. NEUPANE, ADARSH 3655 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Dec 07, 2023
18519091 PROCESS DETECTING UNIT, SUBSTRATE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND SUBSTRATE PROCESS MONITORING METHOD Tes Co., Ltd. TADESSE, YEWEBDAR T 2818 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Nov 27, 2023
18384386 SEMICONDUCTOR PACKAGE Jmj Korea Co., Ltd. SMITH, BRADLEY 2817 §112 Final Rejection — Pending Oct 27, 2023
18283810 METAL ORGANIC CHEMICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION APPARATUS Tes Co., Ltd. CROWELL, ANNA M 1716 §103 Final Rejection 63d Pending Sep 24, 2023
18224578 SYSTEM FOR CONSTRUCTING DATABASE FOR STRUCTURE AND PROPERTY OF MATERIAL BASED ON BIG DATA AND DRIVING METHOD THEREOF Foundation Of Soongsil University-Industry Cooperation SAXENA, AKASH §101§102§103§112 Non-Final OA — Pending Jul 21, 2023
18222959 MULTIFUNCTIONAL EPIDURAL CATHETER BEING EQUIPPED WITH SENSOR FOR DETECTING PRESSURE APPLIED TO COMBINED BALLOON Juvenui Co., Ltd. SWANSON, LEAH JENNINGS 3783 §102§103 Final Rejection 45d overdue Pending Jul 17, 2023
18221390 TASK MANAGEMENT SERVICE SERVER CAPABLE OF PERFORMING TASK MANAGEMENT FOR AN ELECTRONIC TERMINAL AND THE OPERATING METHOD THEREOF Franklin Technology Inc. BOROWSKI, MICHAEL 3624 §101 Non-Final OA 89d overdue Pending Jul 13, 2023
18270834 WIPER BLADE COATING COMPOSITION COMPRISING FUNCTIONALIZED GRAPHENE HAVING ENHANCED ADHESIVENESS TO RUBBER, AND PREPARATION METHOD THEREOF Bestgraphene Co., Ltd. ZHANG, KELING NMN 1732 §103 Final Rejection — Pending Jul 03, 2023
18012641 APPARATUS FOR MANUFACTURING FERMENTED BEVERAGES Inthekeg, Inc. THONG, YEONG JUEN 3761 §102§103 Non-Final OA — Pending Jun 29, 2023
18126472 COSMETIC CONTAINER Samhwa Co., Ltd. CONNELL, JENNIFER PETSCHE 3772 §103 Final Rejection 21d Pending Mar 26, 2023
17295867 COMPOSITE SOLID ELECTROLYTE SEPARATION MEMBRANE USING INORGANIC FIBER AND SECONDARY BATTERY USING THE SAME Energy11 Co., Ltd. HANDVILLE, BRIAN 1783 §103§112 Final Rejection — Pending Mar 02, 2023
17912859 BLOOD PRESSURE METER AND METHOD FOR MEASURING BLOOD PRESSURE USING THE SAME Charmcare Co., Ltd. KIM, SAMUEL CHONG 3791 §101§112 Final Rejection — Pending Sep 20, 2022

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Park, Kim & Suh, LLC's patent allowance rate?

85.7% of resolved applications prosecuted by Park, Kim & Suh, LLC were allowed, across 3,261 applications in USPTO records.

How many office actions does Park, Kim & Suh, LLC average before allowance?

2.44 office actions per allowed application on average.

How many pending office actions does Park, Kim & Suh, LLC have?

21 pending office actions as of October 2026, for 16 clients, before 21 examiners in 18 art units.

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